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Black Like Me - College Essays

Black Like Me

by John Howard Griffin is a Multicultural story set in the south
around the late 1950's in first person point of view about John Griffin in 1959
in the deep south of the east coast, who is a novelist that decides to get his
skin temporarily darkened medically to black. What Griffin hopes to achieve is
enough information about the relationships between blacks and whites to write a
book about it.The overall main obstacle is society, and the racial divide in the
south with the whites. John begins his journey in New Orleans where he gets his
first taste of what it is like to be black. He meets a shoeshiner named Sterling
Williams who gives Griffin friendship, and the opportunity to be ...

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out the lynching case. At the bus station, Griffin
acquired “hate stares “ from many whites on the benches waiting for their buses.
Griffin boarded the bus, and during the trip he conversed with a man named
Christophe, and when the white passengers got off the bus during the rest stop,
the bus driver prevented the Negro passengers from departing. The Negroes were
about to urinate all over the bus, but they decided it would just be another
thing for the whites to hold against blacks. They arrived in Hattiesburg and
John took a cab to a hotel to rest. In the hotel, Griffin tried to write a
letter to his family, but there were too many things blocking his mind.
Afterwards, Griffin called P.D. East, a white friend who writes in a black
newspaper in Mobile and visited his family for a while. Continuing his trip to
Montgomery, he covered a long distance with the help from passing white drivers
(some wereperverted) who gave him rides during the night time. When Griffin was
kicked off ...

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